Friday, July 20th, 2007
Category: Fun
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64squar.es is a completely free, fully featured and easy to use online chess site with a clean simple interface.
Users can play opponents in real-time by dragging and dropping the pieces just like a real chess board. Ajax is used to make your moves on the opponent’s board and vice versa.
We are trying to blur the distinction between real-time online play and correspondence chess. If a user is not online when a move is made, they are sent an email.
Other features:
- Customize board color
- In game chat
- Take-backs
- Avatars
- Implementation of ELO Ranking
- Email Notification
64squar.es is built using Ruby on Rails and jQuery. It also uses Juggernaut (a ruby on rails plugin) to remove the need for polling to improve responsiveness and ease future scaling.
More info:
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- Twelve Java security traps and how to avoid them
Java security isn't well understood, even by those who create Java applications. Fortify chief scientist Brian Chess describes common exploits that...
- jQuery finds important role in Ajax-style open source framework development
The jQuery open source library and framework has gained greater attention among a slate of frameworks that includes Dojo, Prototype, GWT and others....
- Ajax work can be fun, jQuery creator says
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- Unswop the pairs of numbers to bring back the magic
In squares of this type, containing a consecutive sequence 1 to ?, the magical expression to produce the constant is always (n3+n) divided by 2. So in...
Nice! I like a game of chess from time to time…
Wow~~ It’s must be popular。 I’ll try this
Sure, it is interesting as an implementation of rails, but as an avid player I would prefer to play at the free internet chess server (freechess.org), which is telnet based with a variety of GUI clients available.
@Ahsan: You should contact the developer directly with your suggestions. I’m sure he’d be interested in improving his service instead of hearing about how you like another server better.
@Rey. Sure. FICS is just my personal preference as a player.